The House on Maple Street

I felt strange being in my house, it's like there's a secret about it that I don't know. I thought whilst eating my dinner.

"Do you want more eggs?", My mum asked me. "No thanks", I replied, half in a daze. I put my plate in the dishwasher and turned on the television. The news said there would be lift-off on Maple Street. What, there is no space shuttle on Maple Street? I thought.

"The spaceship will go off in 30 minutes", the man on TV said. I turned off the TV and went into my room.
I lay on my bed, exhausted. I felt that something wasn’t right. Then my mum burst into my room, looking flustered.
" I looked on the news and saw our house lifting off into space." She said. "There's something strange about this house." I told my mum. I felt like I was in an aeroplane about to take off. I looked out the window and saw that there were rocket boosters on the bottom of the house. "Come here, Mum," I said.
She came over to the window, looked out, and saw that the house was 10 feet from the ground. The house was getting higher and higher. We turned on the TV, and it showed our house lifting into the air.
"What's happening?" my mum said. She was beginning to get more and more worried. I could hear the dog barking. The house began to shake violently. I looked out the window and saw that we were going about 30 mph. And we were about 50 feet from the ground.

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"There must be a control room to control this ship", I said. After a few minutes I had got down to the basement, which seemed to be the most logical place for a control room. My mum couldn't fit into the passage so I had to do it alone. I flipped a switch and smoke started coming out of the chimney like exhaust from an aeroplane. I found a joystick and
pushed a red button on it. A phonographic voice said "Shield activated”. My mum looked out the window and saw a red shield around the house. She began screaming and everyone was really worried. I moved the joystick left and the house went left. "This is so cool',
I said. I noticed that we were about 200 feet from the ground. I pressed a green button and the house went faster and faster. I looked out the window and I couldn't see the ground anymore. The next minute it got darker and we got out of the Earth's atmosphere.
I pressed a button and wings came out from the sides. We were heading
towards the sun about to burn up and I turned the joystick to the right and found myself inside the Asteroid Belt.

There was asteroids hitting the shield and the shield broke. "What are we going to do now?”, I said. There was an asteroid coming towards the house. I moved the joystick up and the asteroid missed. We were heading for 5 asteroids.
I saw a danger button in red. I pressed it anyway. A missile came out of one of the wings and destroyed 3 of the asteroids. I pressed the red button and held it down and missiles came out like a machine gun. The two asteroids blew-up and we were safe. "I'm safe,"
I said pretending to be at home plate on a baseball field. "Shield activated" the voice said again. I looked out the window and the shield was on. I pressed another button and the house fully transformed into a spaceship. We were shaking and shaking. I was getting scared. I saw that we were heading towards Earth's' moon.
I pushed the control stick down and got closer to the moon. I pressed a button that said ‘landing wheels’ on. The landing wheels came out from under the spaceship. I slowed the spaceship down and landed on the moon. My mum was scared that we were actually on the moon.
I came out of the secret passage and went back into my room. I saw
that my mum was frightened from what had happened.
"That was scary”, my mum said. "Where are we"? She asked.

"On the moon" I told her.

"I can't believe it", she said. "I've dreamed all of my life to be an astronaut. " My mum said.

There was a button next to the door and my mum pressed it. The door opened and the shield turned off.

“ Why are we here?” I asked my mum.

“I think it might have something to do with N.A.S.As secret project to send man to live on the moon. We must be the family that they chose to send to the moon.

“But I don’t want to live on the moon!”, I moaned. “Can we go back?! Is it too late?”

“I don’t think so” said my mum. “Get back into that passage way there might still be time to go back!”

I climbed back into the passage way and I pressed the button. I grasped the joystick and the house began to shake and lift off. It was a perfect lift off. Before we knew it we were back on earth again. I lay down in my bed and breathed a sigh of relief.

I opened my eyes, stretched, and let out a yawn. ‘What a strange dream’, I thought. Not the usual kind. Why, dreaming in the mind of an eight year old driving the house?! Ridiculous!

I walked to my bedroom window and looked out.

“I cant believe this! The house is taking off! Help!” I called my parents.

Maybe it wasn’t all a dream.